Morille des pins mushroom cooked in yellow wine at the new Eric Frechon’s brasserie Lazare, located at the Saint- Lazare train station in Paris. (rue Intérieure 75008 ; tel. 01 44 90 80 80 ) Simple, French brasserie-style cooking from great ingredients- definitely worth a return.

The spectacular open kitchen at Caprice (3*) French restaurant in Hong Kong. Those restaurants who are able to put their hands on a 4-year-old Comté cheese have my instant admiration! ( It’s on the very right of the cheese tray..)

Tokyo has countless soba restaurants, from which 8 are currently awarded one Michelin star each. Muto soba-ya is one of them. Every morning, the chef-owner wakes up early to make his soba noodles, later in the day served hot or cold with some dashi dipping sauce and leeks. Here, simplicity…

I’ve never been to Okuda’s san flagship restaurants Koju (3*) and Okuda (2*) in Tokyo, so I can’t compare, but the quality of the products at his newly opened restaurant in Paris couldn’t get any better, while his skills and cooking techniques are simply mind-blowing. Pictures and review coming soon!

Beautiful food at Kyoto’s Kikunoi… P.S. Longer posts will be resumed soon!

Hokkaido sea urchin with lobster jelly and caviar at Amber (2*) in Hong Kong. One of those dishes that stays in your memory for a long time.

Unforgettable lobster with chanterelle mushrooms, new potatoes and parsley sauce at Mirazur (2*) in Menton. (Images from my first visit in 2012 can be seen here.)

Potatoes déclinaison with white Alba truffles and egg yolk at 2 Michelin starred Dolder Grand hotel restaurant i Zurich. Brilliant dish.

Baked sea bass at the legnedary Club 55 beach restaurant in Saint Tropez.

I first came across Alexandre Gauthier last spring, at Opinionated About Dining 100 best European restaurants launch event, where together with some other new generation European chefs he cooked an “8 hands” meal at Saturne restaurant in Paris. The dish Alexander chose to serve was frog legs, one of the…